Bill Text: TX HB1477 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a court order to disannex an area from a municipality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-18 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1477 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1477-Comm_Sub.html
83R18432 TJB-F | |||
By: Callegari | H.B. No. 1477 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1477: | |||
By: Deshotel | C.S.H.B. No. 1477 |
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relating to a court order to disannex an area from a municipality. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 43.141(b), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) If the governing body fails or refuses to disannex the | ||
area within 60 days after the date of the receipt of the petition, | ||
any one or more of the signers of the petition may bring a cause of | ||
action in a district court of the county in which the area is | ||
principally located to request that the area be disannexed. On the | ||
filing of an answer by the governing body, and on application of | ||
either party, the case shall be advanced and heard without further | ||
delay in accordance with the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. The | ||
district court shall enter an order disannexing the area if the | ||
court finds that a valid petition was filed with the municipality | ||
and that the municipality failed to perform its obligations in | ||
accordance with the service plan and the provisions of Section | ||
43.056 [ |
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SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an area annexed on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
area annexed before the effective date of this Act is governed by | ||
the law in effect on the date the area was annexed, and the former | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |